Cloud Engineer

You'll play a key role in modernising platforms, migrating Legacy services, and improving automation, observability and security across a multi-cloud estate.Cloud Engineer (AWS & Azure)Hybrid (2 days per month onsite)Location: Southampton What you'll be doing

• Designing, deploying and operating production cloud services across AWS & Azure (networking, storage, compute, app services).
• Building secure, resilient, observable infrastructure and services (monitoring, logging, tracing).
• Delivering cloud migration workstreams from traditional/on-prem environments into scalable cloud platforms.
• Automating infrastructure and deployments using IaC and CI/CD, with a strong focus on repeatability and reliability.
• Working closely with engineering and stakeholders to translate requirements into practical, supportable solutions.

• Strong, hands-on experience with AWS & Azure in production environments.
• Proven experience delivering cloud migrations (planning, build, cutover, optimisation).
• Good understanding of security and operational best practice (identity, access, hardening, monitoring, incident readiness).
• Comfort with automation and CI/CD (pipelines, deployment tooling, scripting).
• Clear communicator who can collaborate across teams.

Technical environment (indicative)

• AWS: EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, IAM
• Azure: Azure SQL, Entra ID, Azure DevOps, Container Apps, API Management, Functions
• IaC/Automation: Terraform/OpenTofu/Scalr, Octopus Deploy (or similar), Azure DevOps, PowerShell, Azure CLI
• Scripting: PowerShell, Python, Bash
• Containers: Docker, container registries (eg, ACR)
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps Pipelines, YAML automation
• Observability: Datadog, Grafana Cloud, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Loki

Benefits (from day one)

• Up to 15% Bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Pension: 4% employer contribution when you contribute 5%
• Free onsite gym
• EV car scheme
• Healthcare scheme (incl. dental/eye care/treatments/diagnostics consultations)
• Death in service (3x salary)
• Employee Assistance Programme (24/7 counselling + legal/financial support + GP line)
• Paid volunteering day + fundraising opportunities

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.